"The Lord of Great Images said that all beings need ancient and modern times, from beginning to end; this is the meaning of their existence. They are not the ruthless things derived from the Great Image. The Great Image and the old days are, of course, truly existent, just like us, born from the false thoughts before the Xuanxiang (Mysterious Image)."

"But that false thought is too far away from us, so that it has no concept of time. Therefore, all beings have no beginning and no end!"

Without an end, the myriad phenomena of the universe will never stop revolving; everything will continue, and all paths will continue to extend.

Ji Xiang's palm turned over and gently grasped. The myriad phenomena, visible and invisible, around Taishang himself also began to operate rapidly, unable to stop.

Thus, before Taishang's eyes were the endlessly extending myriad phenomena.

He was enveloped by the myriad phenomena to which he was attached, unable to escape, and directly fell into them.

Countless scenes and countless beings were born and died, died and were born again; the galaxy went silent, then brightened again; the deathly aura of time surged, then gradually receded, and a new time reappeared.

Even his own path began to extend, seemingly trying to revolve within the myriad phenomena, trying to complete itself.

Taishang was greatly shocked.

If the myriad phenomena of the world are infinitely changing, with no beginning and no end, then an era may not necessarily have only one person become the Lord of the Great Image, and a single path may not necessarily be traversable by only one person.

Even a fragmented law, after millions of generations of passers-by and tens of millions of generations of transformations, may complete itself.

"Taishang is undefeated?"

"The highest will not fail, but there is no highest thing in the world, only a higher one. The myriad phenomena of the universe are not only constantly advancing within the Great Image, but even the heaven above heaven has never stopped."

"Flowing water does not rot, and a door hinge does not decay. The so-called undefeated is only because one has not yet been defeated. I am fortunate to have met the demon immortal first. If Taishang had been born complete, he would have been in the Great Image realm from birth."

Ji Xiang thought that the demon immortal had said that Taishang was not a title, but initially an identity, and the Taishangs were also a fixed number.

If the name of undefeated had truly been passed down, it was a path that a certain Taishang had once walked.

Then, within that so-called fixed number of Taishangs, were the other Taishangs, even if they were in the same Great Image, truly inferior to him?

The battle situation reversed, and Taishang fell into Ji Xiang's palm, like a mote of dust, and that ubiquitous figure could not keep up with the speed of the myriad phenomena's growth and expansion.

Taishang tried to extend those myriad phenomena to their end, in order to escape this prison. His law operated, and as soon as an image manifested, it was destroyed, but because of the lack of beginning and end, there were new images evolving after the destruction, and with his movements, with the operation of his heart and mind, it was even faster than a kshana (smallest unit of time) of birth and death.

Always a moment before his thoughts arose.

There were new images ready to evolve.

Taishang is undefeated, clearly the most unparalleled law. His words turned into reality, and from the moment reality was born, it had already arrived at the end, but the myriad phenomena that Ji Xiang evolved for him, were the myriad phenomena belonging only to Taishang. This myriad phenomena was also undefeated.

It also followed, clinging to his power, growing with him, constantly expanding.

Never ending.

Never having a boundary.

Taishang fell into the vast image without beginning, without end, without ancient or modern times. He opened his mouth, and within the infinitely growing myriad phenomena, his expression was extremely horrified, losing his previous indifferent posture, and gradually turning into trembling.

The Human Dao Dharma Realm was taken out by Ji Xiang from the vast myriad phenomena. Taishang reached out to grab it, but the speed of the myriad phenomena's growth was too fast, and in just a kshana, it had already exceeded the limit he could reflect.

By the time he reached out, it was already over, just like the name of undefeated.

"Great Image realm....."

Taishang stopped moving, because no matter how hard he tried, he could not leave this infinitely growing image. He could only stop his own actions, and when his actions stopped, the myriad phenomena would also stop growing. This was a prison that was almost boundless, seemingly without time and age, yet within the myriad phenomena, there were shadows of time and age everywhere!

Taishang's thoughts were bound in his heart, not radiating outward, not causing the myriad phenomena to operate, but at this time, he gradually heard some past voices from within the Dharma Gate in his body.

Those voices came ethereal, seemingly existent and seemingly non-existent, and in the vast, boundless, ancient, and modern depths of the myriad phenomena, they seemed to be everywhere.

[All things in the world are born from existence, and existence is born from non-existence.]

"Who is it, who?"

Taishang could not remember, nor had he ever had this memory. This voice did not know where it came from, did not know where to start, and even less did it know where it was drifting to in the myriad phenomena.

His thoughts spread outward, and the Taishang body he represented also emitted a magnificent light, which made the evolution of the myriad phenomena even faster, and that fragmented path was gradually being completed, and it was getting faster and faster.

However, it had been completing, and it had never stopped.

Infinite, endless.

He discovered that the completion of the Taishang law, if it wanted to be truly completed, required him to go out from this myriad phenomena prison before it could happen.

No matter what he did in the prison, once a thought arose, it would never fall, and he did not even know when that thought had arisen.

Without ancient or modern times, without beginning or end, as long as he was forever in the prison, he could never complete the Taishang law.

But perhaps, if he always existed within it, would his Taishang law not develop more new paths?

That fragment, perhaps, was not a fragment at all.

Taishang fell into deep thought, and at this time he laughed, releasing more thoughts.

The Boundless Beginning and End Heavenly Lord made the wrong decision.

This would allow his path to be infinitely strengthened in this myriad phenomena prison, waiting forever. Even if there was no end, the operation of the Dao, the completion of the law, the infinite paths, the infinite evolutions, he would truly reach a realm that even the Dao could not reach.

Taishang constantly released his thoughts, accelerating the operation of the myriad phenomena. He did not know how long had passed, but Taishang felt that his thoughts had filled the myriad phenomena, and had expanded to the point where even he could not control them.

Countless thoughts, as if there were countless selves, began to turn into countless incarnations in the operation of the myriad phenomena. Their thoughts intertwined, and gradually they had self-awareness. Every thought believed that its own existence was the real "Taishang."

They used the law to confirm each other, used the law to attack each other, and the myriad phenomena evolved to be even greater and more numerous, reaching an immeasurable, unnamable, indescribable, and unknowable distant state.

Then, he did not know how long had passed, but these thoughts began to collapse, and Taishang had already lost himself, because the infinitely growing thoughts had completely overwhelmed his own thoughts, disappearing.

Even though the supplementation of the law was very fast, it was far from keeping up with the growth rate of the myriad phenomena and thoughts.

Endless vows were endless hopes, and also endless hearts and spirituality. Even at the level of Taishang, he could not bear it. He was overwhelmed by his own thoughts, falling into a long, dreamless sleep, in which there was only a blank space. All the thoughts stopped turning, and he even forgot his own existence.

The myriad phenomena then fell silent.

Afterwards, under the manipulation of a pair of large hands, these myriad phenomena disappeared in the deepest depths, as if..... returning to the Xuanxiang.

He did not know how long had passed; it was an endless road. When a large hand fell and pulled him out of the myriad phenomena, returning him to the original old days, Taishang regained his senses, gathering all his heart and mind.

The path of Taishang was completed.

Taishang looked at Ji Xiang, and also at the Boundless Beginning and End Heavenly Lord, confused:

"How long has it been?"

He had previously forgotten who he was, forgotten how long had passed. Although those thoughts were gradually recovering, they still made Taishang confused.

He did not even understand some of the things he had done in the distant past, even though his so-called "distant past" was only a few quarters of an hour ago for Ji Xiang.

Ji Xiang replied: "One thought will be destroyed, and one thought will be born."

"Two thoughts have not yet changed, only between birth and death, it is only 'an instant'."

Taishang was silent for a long time, and asked in confusion:

"Why, in the end, did you not transform me, but instead helped me?"

Ji Xiang could clearly have transformed him into the myriad phenomena, because he had just gone astray, creating infinite thoughts to the point of destroying his own original thought. At that time, he had already achieved the myriad phenomena, scattered among the myriad phenomena and myriad thoughts.